A/N: Hi everyone! This is a story from the Club Doccubus auction. I want to thank the awesome high bidder who requested this. It's a holiday story with a doccubaby and I hope to finish it by the end of the year. :) The rating is M just to be on the safe side (for now). Enjoy!

Bo was asleep and she was really enjoying it. It had been such a long day full of dealing with various Fae and then stopping by the Dal for a quick drink before heading home. Of course, no night was complete without making love to Lauren. After that, there was nothing to do but fall asleep.

Of course, there was so much more to do than that and Bo hadn't had a night like that in months. Part of her really missed those nights.

She heard a cry and groaned, rolling over to cuddle up to Lauren in hopes that she would wake up, too. She really didn't want to get out of their nice, warm bed. Not when she hadn't been in it for very long and she was so very tired.

"Don't even try it," she heard Lauren mumble out as she felt her attempt to bury herself under the covers.

"Your turn," Bo tried even though she knew that she wouldn't be successful. She so rarely was.

"Your fault," was the response, causing her to groan.

That was a common response and though Bo knew she didn't mean it in a negative way, Lauren sure did use that excuse a lot so Bo would be the one getting up at night whenever they heard that familiar cry. And Bo tended to get up a lot at night, something she hadn't done since her days of being a more carefree Succubus.

She let out a small grumble before getting out of bed and tossed on a pair of boxer shorts and a t-shirt. She walked out the bedroom and maneuvered into the hallway of their apartment to the bedroom next to hers and Lauren's. There wasn't a need to turn on a light. Bo knew exactly where everything was without thinking or looking, the side effect of spending so many nights in the room.

Walking over to the crib in the corner, Bo looked down at her five-month-old daughter. Unlike Bo, little Charlotte was wide awake and not in a good mood. She had a set of lungs on her that she liked to test out as soon as Bo and Lauren thought it was safe to have a little alone time or do something as wild as sleep for more than three hours at a time. Her arms and legs were moving around quickly and even in the dark Bo could see that Lauren had dressed in her in her "Mommy's Little Scientist" onesie. The sight made her smile. Her girlfriend had the weirdest sense of humor.

Bo picked her up as Charlotte wiggled around, rubbing her back gently as if that would get her to stop. She knew it was likely Charlotte would just cry herself out if she wasn't wet or hungry but the motion actually made Bo feel better. It made her feel like a productive parent in some small way. "Okay, sweetie. We've talked about this. Your parents need both alone time and sleep, preferably on the same night and for more than a couple hours. You like to sleep, right? 'Cause I love to sleep."

That was only partially true. Sure, she liked to sleep and all, but she liked having a little naked fun with her girlfriend more than anything else. Thing was, Lauren wasn't exactly in the mood if Charlotte was keeping them up and if she was being honest, the sleep deprivation that came with a new baby kind of took the fun out of it.

"Okay, so what's wrong? Hungry? Wet?" Bo knew it wasn't hungry because Lauren had Charlotte on a clockwork schedule and when she checked her diaper was bone dry. The little girl was still crying though so Bo did the one thing she could think of. "Wanna go see Mommy?"

Even though Charlotte couldn't tell her what she wanted, Bo knew that she was well aware of what 'Mommy' meant. There was a slight hitch in the crying and that's all Bo needed before she walked out of the room with her daughter in her arms. When she entered the bedroom, she could tell that Lauren was trying her best to remain asleep.

Bo only stood at the foot of the bed for a few seconds, keeping Charlotte in her arms as she waited for any response from Lauren. It took almost a full minute before she heard a groan over the crying and Lauren rolled over to look at the pair.

"Really, Bo?"

She shrugged. "She wanted Mommy."

Lauren sat up in bed, turned on the lamp next to the bed, and scowled in a way that told Bo she hadn't had nearly enough sleep lately. "Technically, we're both Mommy so she could think that 'Mommy' is holding her right now."

There was only one thing that had worked in this situation before and Bo didn't want to have both a crying baby and a pissed off girlfriend so she knew she had to use it. She held out Charlotte for her, making sure Lauren could see how upset the little girl was. "Come on, babe. We both know you can't resist."

There was a standoff for a few seconds before Lauren sighed and reached out, easily taking Charlotte from Bo and holding her close. Bo watched as Lauren whispered softly into their daughter's ear as she rocked her and slowly the crying lessened to the point there was only a whimper every now and then. The actions made Bo sit down on the edge of the bed and watch in awe. She was never able to calm Charlotte down so fast.

"I don't know how you do that," Bo said quietly as she looked at Lauren and their child with a goofy smile on her face. The sight of the two of them never failed to fill her with love. "She likes you better."

Lauren let out a chuckle as she looked down at Charlotte. "She doesn't like me better. I've just started to learn what makes her calm down."

"What did you say?"

"A spell."

Bo's eyes bulged as the incredibly unexpected response. "Seriously?"

Lauren narrowed her eyes and shook her head. "Of course, not. She's our daughter, Bo. She may be out to make sure we never sleep a full night again but I can safely say I love her more than anything in this world. I'm not about to cast a spell to make sure we get some sleep."

There was a part of Bo that would be tempted to use some sort of spell for one full night of sleep. "Yeah, you could come up with something to inject her with anyway."

They looked at each other and laughed quietly so they didn't disturb Charlotte, who was starting to go back to sleep. Bo moved closer to Lauren, watching as she gently rocked their daughter and kept talking to her. Lauren seemed to have everything down when it came to their baby, while Bo always second-guessed herself and kept wondering if there was some mistake. Maybe she'd wake up and realize that everything was a dream or that Lauren didn't want a screw-up like Bo as the mother of their baby. She still thought Lauren could do better.

"Bo, honey? Why don't you put her back down? I think she'll sleep for a while . . . or a couple hours anyway."

Bo smiled and took their now sleeping daughter from her and walked her back to her room. The entire time it felt as if she needed to walk on eggshells, not wanting to do anything that would wake Charlotte and start everything over again. The little girl didn't wake up though, even when Bo almost ran into the doorframe as she backed carefully out of the room.

She walked back into her bedroom, smiling as she noticed Lauren was still sitting up and waiting for her to come back. The lights were off again but it was easy for Bo to make her way to her side of the bed and slip in next to Lauren. She leaned in and gave her a quick kiss. "You're amazing."

"I know."

They shared a laugh for a few seconds before Bo settled down with Lauren in her arms. They stayed silent for a few minutes, Bo listening to make sure Charlotte was going to stay asleep and knew that Lauren was likely doing the same. Once she thought she was safe to say something, she gave Lauren a light squeeze. "How come you keep using the 'my fault' excuse?"

"It's a good one and it's true."

Bo couldn't argue with that because it was her fault that Charlotte came into this world. After everything with Hades and then with Kenzi leaving with Dagne, Bo decided it was time to really give her all to Lauren and concentrate on moving the Fae into the modern era without sides. Since the clubhouse was no more and Lauren didn't want to stay in her apartment that only had room for one, they got a place together and for the first time in a long time, it felt like her life might slow down.

One thing Bo quickly realized that when life started to slow a little, she fell even further in love with Lauren. They spent more time together and learn more about each other. Bo found out that Lauren's parents were more away than present during her childhood and that she learned how to cook because once they got older, no one was around to cook for her and her brother. Of course, that brought up the important the important fact that she didn't know: her girlfriend had a brother.

Not only did they have the time to get to know each other, they were able to do simple couple activities. They went on dates and had quiet nights at the apartment. Sure, they still had to deal with the odd Fae crisis, but it was nothing like fighting Hades or some other attack on the world as Bo knew it. Along with continuing PI work, Bo worked with Dyson and Vex at bringing the two sides of the colony together or, at the least, make it so they cared little of Fae being Light or Dark. Lauren also kept up her work at her clinic, continuing to do what she had dreamt of: healing Humans and Fae.

All this semi-normalcy and a little extra time extended to the bedroom, too, and that was something Bo took full advantage of. She felt she saw a side of Lauren that no one else did, someone who was adventurous and downright irresistible. Bo felt things with Lauren that she never did with anyone else and that meant they were very active in the bedroom.

Bo always experimented with her feeding, trying to find ways to minimize the amount of times she needed to feed off someone else to survive. When she was with Lauren she would always take a tiny amount of chi from her because that, along with the sex itself, went a long way now that she was in control of her feeding more than ever before. She tried feeding in a nonsexual way but that always lacked the strength chi during sex had. Not unless she took chi from multiple people and that was something she hadn't done since she was under Hades' control.

Eventually, Bo had the thought that maybe if they had sex for longer periods of time she would get more from Lauren alone, maybe to the point where she wouldn't need much else unless she was injured. That led to her experimenting with pushing small amounts of chi into Lauren a couple times as they made love then taking a small amount back later.

To say their sex was beyond anything Bo had experienced after that was an understatement, both of them feeling the amazing high that came from the give and take of chi. Of course, it turned out to have side effects they weren't aware of. Like the side effect where the end result was sleeping in a crib in another room.

Lauren was at a loss at how chi could get her pregnant. She told Bo she had never read anything about it when she was researching Succubi but that with the Fae anything was possible. They discussed everything, mostly because Bo was freaked that the pregnancy was the result of some evil Fae curse, but Lauren convinced her that everything was normal. At least, as normal as their lives ever were.

Dealing with a pregnant Lauren was interesting to say the least. Morning sickness lasted half of the pregnancy and then there was the weird cravings that sometimes bordered on gross. But it wasn't all that bad. Lauren practically glowed the entire time and Bo thought she never looked more beautiful than she did when she was carrying their child. Of course, there was also the horniness stage which Bo took full advantage of.

The scariest and happiest day of her life was the day Charlotte was born. She had never imagined that Lauren would swear at her so much or grip her arm so hard that she thought it might be broken. She also had never seen Lauren in that much pain and wanted to ease it in some way, but the doctor told her not to use her touch on her girlfriend. After everything her powers did, they didn't know how it would affect the birth.

Like many nights after, little Charlotte came into the world screaming her head off. The doctor laid their tiny baby on Lauren's chest and Bo fell in love.

"Bo? Are you asleep?"

"As much as I want to be, no."

Lauren let out a laugh as she shifted her body to look at Bo. "You got that look in your eye. You know, it's too early, or late, to be thinking so hard. You're the one who taught me that."

"Just thinking about Charlotte." She paused. "And that you were naked when I got up to get our screaming angel but when I brought her in here, you were dressed. Still are, too, which is not something I like when we're in bed."

"Babe, half the time you bring her in here. I was just preparing for the inevitable."

Bo closed her eyes as she felt Lauren snuggle into her more. "You know what to do to calm her down. You never tell me what you say to her."

"That is between me and our daughter."

It was what she said every time but Bo wasn't about to stop asking. Maybe then she would figure out how to get Charlotte to stop crying just as fast. "You'll tell me someday." She slipped a hand under her shirt. "Maybe when my hand is . . ."

Lauren gave her a quick kiss on the lips to stop her from finishing the sentence. "Never. Come on, we need to sleep. I bet she'll be awake in a couple hours."

Giving Charlotte a bottle was the easiest thing in the world to Bo. The baby ate like a champ and would recognize a bottle the minute she saw it in Bo's hand.

"We should start talking about what we're going to do for Christmas."

Bo looked up from watching Charlotte as she held her while sitting at the kitchen table to Lauren as she walked in, dressed for her day at the clinic. "It's only December 1st."

Lauren opened the cupboard to retrieve a glass then grabbed the orange juice Bo had left sitting on the counter. "Yes, but we've got to decorate the apartment and buy some presents. Maybe we should have a little party. Charlotte will only have her first Christmas once."

"You're going to go a little overboard with this, aren't you?" Bo asked, looking down at Charlotte again. When Lauren changed her diaper this morning she had also changed her outfit. She was wearing a shirt that read, "Cute Nerd". "And where did you get all these shirts and onesies? I would definitely remember if I was with you when you bought them. Mostly, so I could talk you out of them."

"They were gifts from some of the staff at the clinic," Lauren answered as she cut up an apple and put it on a plate before walking over and sitting next to Bo. "I think they're cute and who knows? Maybe I can get her a little lab coat for when she comes to the lab."

"Does this mean we can get her a little leather jacket, too?"

That was an argument they had when Lauren was pregnant and they found out they was having a little girl. Bo thought a little leather jacket on their daughter would look tough but Lauren thought the jacket would be a waste of money since it would only fit for a short time. "I don't think buying an expensive jacket is the same as a lab coat." Lauren smiled as Bo pulled the now empty bottle away from Charlotte. "It could be a Christmas card. I could get a tiny stethoscope, too."

Bo shook her head. "Ridiculous."

"Just wait until you see her," Lauren said, getting up and leaning down to kiss Charlotte's forehead. After that, she kissed Bo's lips quickly before standing and grabbing the empty plate. "What are your plans for the day? I know you told Emma to take the day off."

Emma, the sitter they used whenever both Bo and Lauren were working, was Fae and a natural with babies. Lauren had worked very hard to hire her. Even with that, Bo liked to be with Charlotte whenever she could. "Just hanging out with one of my two favorite girls."

Lauren raised an eyebrow at the comment. "Why do I get the feeling you're up to something?"

Bo picked up Charlotte and set her on the table, turning her to face Lauren. She ran a finger lightly down her arm, getting her to smile at her Mommy. "Charlotte, tell Mommy that we're not up to anything today." She tickled her again to make her laugh. "See, Lauren, we're not doing anything weird. We're only going to bond by watching some horror movies and then I'll teach her all about the best kinds of liquor."

"Very funny."

"We'll be fine, Lauren."

Lauren looked at the two of them one more time before walking out of kitchen to get the rest of her things. Once she was out of sight, Bo smiled and leaned into Charlotte, kissing her cheeks. "Good thing you're adorable, sweetie. I think we got out of that one."

"I heard that!"

If Bo thought she was aware of her surroundings before, it was nothing compared to when she was with Charlotte. For one, Lauren made her take her car to get checked out and fixed to make it safe for their daughter to ride in. After that, there were what car seats to get and safer driving skills. And all of that didn't even begin to cover how she felt when she was walking around with her. She looked for signs of a threat constantly.

Now that Lauren had gone to work Bo was able to start her planning. Even though she told Lauren it was a little early, Bo had been planning Christmas festivities for weeks. Not only did she want Charlotte's first Christmas to be special, she also realized that it would be their first full blown holiday as a family. She was a mother to a beautiful baby girl and was with someone she wanted forever with.

She also wanted to make it official. Though they said they wanted forever, neither of them used the word "marriage" and neither of them wore a ring. That was something Bo wanted to rectify. She wanted to show Lauren that her heart would always belong to her.

Bo turned her car into a small parking lot and shut off the engine before looking in the backseat. She noticed Charlotte was awake and seriously examining her hands. She had a look on her face that Bo found was very similar the one Lauren had when she was writing her notes after looking at a sample. It was the cutest thing the little girl had done since this morning, according to Bo anyway, and she quickly took a picture on her phone before getting out and walking around the car to get Charlotte unbuckled.

"Okay, sweetie," Bo started as she unfastened everything and picked up her daughter, "are you ready to give your opinion today? 'Cause I'm gonna need a little help."

Charlotte rested her head on Bo's shoulder and let out a babble, which Bo took as a yes. She locked the car and walked to the front door of the store she'd been looking for, hitting the buzzer so she could be let in. It took a few seconds but the door unlocked and Bo walked inside with Charlotte in tow. There was already a customer being helped by a middle-aged man at one counter but a young woman was at another one, smiling when she saw the pair.

"Well, I didn't expect to see a little one today," she said as Bo stopped at the counter. "I'm Sara and I'll be helping you today. What would you like to see?"

Bo smiled, watching as her daughter had instantly won over the sales clerk. "I'm Bo and this adorable baby is Charlotte. And I am looking for an engagement ring for my girlfriend."

A/N: there's the start. No angst in this one, just fun, and the chapters should be a little longer. Please let me know what you think. Twitter: hayley128. :)